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Obidos - Portugal
VT Meeting - Obidos
From Obidos how easy is it to use buses/trains to:
1) Go on a day trip to Alcobaca
2) Travel to Tomar
Take the bus, it's more accessible, frequest and convenient than the train. Alcobaca and Tomar are a short distance away from Obidos. You should include also in your visit the great church and town of Batalha which is within the same distance and area as the two. From these places, you'll be within a mere 1 1/2 hours into Lisbon. Check with the tourist office in Obidos. Enjoy and happy trails.
You have direct buses from Obidos to Alcobaça, batalha and more - see http://www.rodotejo.pt/carreiras2.php
For Tomar is more difficult - there is no direct conection. You should consider a connection in Leiria, to pick the express bus - http://www.rede-expressos.pt/0010.asp.
Obidos is only 5 km from Caldas da Rainha, a much more efficient hub for transport. There you have the option of the two lines.
Train is possible but not practical in this area - too slow with bad connections.
Enjoy
avelino
Ah ha! I see perseverance is the key to these two sites you mentioned.
Eventually I found the busses I wanted (on a Saturday too - I like to make things more challenging!). So now I am suitably reassured my itinary will work. I have even engineered a stop off in Batalha between Tomar and Obidos. Excellence! Only one week to go. Huzzah!
Upon entering the town of Obidos, you come across the stunning town gate PORTA DA VILA.
A plaque nearby reads as follows:
"Town Gate and Our Lady of Piety's Oratory
Main Access Door to the town of Obidos
Concluded approximately in 1380. It shelters
the Oratory dedicated to the Patroness of
Obidos, Our Lady of Piety. Concluded in the
17th Century, with remarkable tile covering from
1740 - 45
We spent only about 2 hours in Obidos as we passed through the area between our beach stops at 'Praia de Mira' (just south of Aveiro) and 'Ilha da Berlenga' (just off-shore from Peniche) due west of Obidos.
The next day, we left from Peniche for a quick drive to Lisbon on the big divided 4-lane highway system in this part of Portugal. This whole area has lots of great tourist destinations within easy reach of the Capital, so they tend to be busier than most of the other places that we visited.
The town is quite small and is filled with walking roads. I would recommend that you walk down each of the little streets to see some of the shops and great places to eat. The small streets and as always... the people... I think that the Portuguese are some of the best people in the world.
I had already been in Portugal for quite some time when I visited Obidos, but it was only about two weeks into the time that I started actually studying the language that I went to visit this village. I was taking a language course open to the general public, and this trip was organized by the school. Hence, a good handful of people of all ages and ethnicities were present. Seeing as I had only been studying the language for 2 weeks, it was quite awful to realize that our guide was speaking only in Portuguese the entire time. There were only a handful of us beginners present, whereas everyone else was rather advanced with the language. Tough luck for us; we sat there and amused ourselves with whatever we could while our lovely guide blabbered away almost incomprehensibly to us. I think I could understand one in every 10 words. Had you given me a few more weeks, I would have had a much easier time.
If you want a tour of the village, find one in a language you can understand!
Its whitewashed houses with yellow or blue stripes, show distinctly the marks of its medieval past, such as stone doors and window frames, and at each stride, picturesque corners appear full of ancient flavours. Everywhere, churches, austere facades, "Manuelino" windows and historical landmarks, complement the many-coloured flowers and vines which give life to this area of past kings.
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Address: Estrada Nacional 8, No 19, Obidos, Estremadura, 2510-216, Portugal
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